The MichMATYC Sum-Times The Michigan Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges September 2019 In This Issue Edited by Indah Kooswinarsinindyah ([email protected]) o Message from the President o AMATYC Update from Message from the President Midwest Vice President Michael Pemberton o SIMIODE Lansing Community College o Affiliate Scholarship o Karen Sharp Scholarship Award Welcome to the 2019-20 academic year! I hope that o Campus News your new semester has begun with great things o Voting Ballot Information happening at your college. Keep in mind that it is the o Campus Representatives work that we do and the success we enable for our o Did You Know? students that is very important! We have a critical role in the education of students in our state! o Upcoming Events As your new President of MichMATYC, I would like to introduce myself. o MichMATYC Officers & Staff My name is Michael Pemberton and I have been teaching at Lansing Save the Date Community College for three years. I have also served as the MiTEAM Coordinator and affiliate delegate during my short time in Michigan. I look forward to meeting and representing everyone within MichMATYC for the next couple years. I have the honor of following in the footsteps of several excellent leaders who have founded, developed, and strengthened our organization. MichMATYC exists to provide networking and professional development for colleagues intensely involved in the first two years of college mathematics. MichMATYC Conference We have several colleagues whose outstanding contributions within Mistakes Allow Thinking to Happen MichMATYC makes our organization wonderful. I would like to thank and Henry Ford College acknowledge Sam Bazzi from Henry Ford College who continues to serve as Dearborn, MI our Secretary-Treasurer. He does a fantastic job of keeping me informed about October 11-12, 2019 MichMATYC’s finances and is one of our organization’s strongest proponents, Save the Date always working to find opportunities in which to support MichMATYC. I would also like to introduce you to our officers for this year. The Past President is Anna Cox from Kellogg Community College and continues to be a great resource. Julie Gunkelman of Oakland Community College and Shanna Simpson-Singleton of Henry Ford College will serve as our AMATYC affiliate delegates. I look forward to working with each of them! One of the areas that I wish to explore further while serving as President is a need for added participation in volunteer opportunities within our organization. Whether you serve as a campus representative, on a committee, contribute to th our newsletter, or the conference organizing team, MichMATYC benefits 45 Annual AMATYC Conference greatly from your involvement. All of our work is completed by volunteers and Great Lakes – Great Ideas! I hope that you will consider responding when an opportunity is issued to help Milwaukee, WI with our organization’s work. November 14-17, 2019 Our 2019 MichMATYC Conference, Mistakes Allow Thinking to Happen, will be held at Henry Ford College in Dearborn, Michigan on October 12. A pre-conference workshop led by Dr. Maria Andersen on “Strategies for Active Learning and Assessment with Desmos” is scheduled for Henry Ford College on Friday, October 11 from 1:00 to 4:00 pm. Friday evening includes a tour of the Arab American National Museum beginning at 5:00 pm and is followed by dinner in downtown Dearborn at Habib’s Cuisine. It will be an amazing conference and I hope to see everyone there! Additional information regarding registration and schedule of this year’s conference events can be found at http://michmatyc2019.org and with the attached PDF schedule of events. (continued on page 2) The MichMATYC Sum-Times September 2019 Message from the President (continued from page 1) organization on a continuing basis. Being a professional has a basis in membership to state professional This summer has been busy for our executive board and organizations. To assist in this goal, the executive board year’s conference is quickly approaching. We will have has created a membership brochure at added importance during this year’s business meeting with http://bit.ly/michmatyc_membership. Please encourage a vote on two proposals regarding membership your full- and part-time colleagues to join MichMATYC! (see page 6). I hope you have a great semester, and please say hello The second area in which I would like to focus this year when you see me at the conferences in Dearborn and is professional membership. As a group, we tend to only Milwaukee, and if you have suggestions or ideas to hold a membership in MichMATYC if we attend the implement, please pass them to me in person or by email conference in a given year. I believe that all full-time at [email protected]. faculty and most adjunct faculty should belong to our AMATYC Update from Midwest Vice President Jon Oaks AMATYC Traveling Workshops. Consider applying to be AMATYC Midwest Regional Vice President AMATYC’s next Professional Development Coordinator! Macomb Community College For more details, please visit www.amatyc.org and look for ‘Get Involved.’ Every Professional Development The fall semester is well underway along with my least Coordinator ever has been from Michigan – let’s keep this favorite season of the year – Pumpkin Spice Latte season. tradition alive! Although you might disagree with me, I hope that you won’t disagree with me that the AMATYC Annual ICME-14 in 2020 Conference this November in Milwaukee will be an Save the date now for ICME-14 in Shanghai, China, excellent opportunity to learn some great ideas to take July 12-19, 2020. This event offers a unique opportunity back to your classroom. If you are planning to attend, for mathematics educators from the United States to please remember that the Early Registration Deadline is a discuss issues related to mathematics education with September 30 postmark if registering by mail and international leaders from developed and developing October 7 if registering online or by fax using a countries. Travel Grants for ICME-14, funded through a credit card. grant from the National Science Foundation (PD# 35281), are now available. The application deadline is October 15, Pictures Wanted! 2019, and the grants will be awarded by February 1, 2020. During this year’s Midwest Regional Lunch in More information about the grants is available at Milwaukee, I would like to highlight activities going on at http://www.nctm.org/icme14. your campus. If you have any pictures of campus events that you would like to share with the entire region, please AMATYC Midwest Regional Group on Facebook send them to me at [email protected] by As always, if you would like to see more updates like November 1. Photos from college-wide events, student this, along with other news and interesting articles, please activities, mathematics awareness, award winners, etc. are join the AMATYC Midwest Regional Facebook Group at all welcome! http://bit.ly/amatycmidwest. Professional Development Opportunity Available Thanks so much; I hope you have a great rest of the AMATYC’s professional development programs have semester, and I hope to see you soon in Milwaukee at the grown significantly over the past decade with the addition AMATYC Annual Conference! of the AMATYC Webinar Series and the increase in 2 The MichMATYC Sum-Times September 2019 SIMIODE Greg Thull For additional information or to register for the Grand Valley State University challenge visit https://www.simiode.org/scudem/2019. Please consider SIMIODE (simiode.org) is a free professional recruiting a team for your school and supporting your organization that promotes the use of modeling in the students’ mathematical development. Registration teaching of mathematics. Their website provides many deadline is October 25, 2019. resources and projects for use in the classroom. They also organize the SIMIODE challenge using differential For SCUDEM IV there are three local host in Michigan equation modeling (SCUDEM). for you to consider joining. This year the challenge will take place November 1st • Grand Valley State University, Allendale MI through the 8th with teams creating models for one of three • Lawrence Technological University, Southfield MI modeling scenarios. On Saturday, November 9th teams • Michigan Technological University, Houghton MI will gather at a local host site to present their models in a positive supportive environment. Please contact Greg Thull ([email protected]) if you The local host will have additional activities planned for have any questions. the student teams on that day as well as professional development activities for team coaches. AMATYC Affiliate Scholarship Julie Gunkelman Preference will be given to someone who will be Oakland Community College attending their first AMATYC conference, but everyone is eligible. Complete the Affiliate Scholarship for the As an AMATYC affiliate, we have the opportunity to AMATYC Conference Form by 11:59 PM on Friday, award a scholarship for someone to attend the annual September 27. AMATYC Conference this year in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Please send an email to either Julie Gunkelman on November 14-17, 2019. The scholarship covers the ([email protected]) or Shanna Simpson- cost of early registration ($360). Singleton ([email protected]) if you have any questions. Karen Sharp Student Scholarship Award Lisa Winch I would also like to thank the members of the Kalamazoo Valley Community College scholarship committee, Brianne Lodholtz and Maria Johnson for their work reading and evaluating The Karen Sharp Student Scholarship Committee would applications, and making thoughtful recommendations. like to give a big congratulations to the winners of this Also, a very special thank you to the faculty for writing year’s award: letters of recommendation to support their students who apply for this scholarship. Joshua Adair (Kellogg Community College) Remember that next year’s application for the Karen David Hampshire (Oakland Community College) Sharp Student Scholarship will be April 30, 2020.